To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.
Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.
Why buy sanitary napkins from multinationals when we can make them at home and generate employment?
I am the son of a hand-loom weaver. I have a connection with yarn. I thought, 'Why not try to make an affordable sanitary pad for my wife?'
You can send women to the Moon or Mars later. First, provide sanitary pads to them.
Imagine: I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins - a hot-cake product. Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood, I know no human being died because of poverty - everything happens because of ignorance.
